Celles-sur-Belle dairy, a little history
At the beginning, there was the Vée…
At the end of the 19th century, there was already a dairy in the town of Celles-sur-Belle, at a place called “La Vée”. These are the buildings of an old water mill which were called upon to house the new activity.
In September 1892, a committee was formed spontaneously to transform the La Vée dairy belonging to Mr. Nocquet in a cooperative dairy, we can read in the dairy registers. More than 220 members were found in 6 months.
This is how the La Vée cooperative dairy was born, the one which would later become Sèvre et Belle.
